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Personal immigration history:
- Great-grandfather (dad): Giuseppe Balsamo
- Great-grandmother (dad): Elvira DelliPaoli
- Great-great-grandmother (mom): Catarina Castori
- Great-great-grandfather (mom): Pasquale Marzigliano
Relationship with Italian history and culture:
- Born and raised in America, but alongside traditional Italian
values and cultural traditions.
- Language, food, and a deeply personal relationship
with my heritage led to questions of my own identity,
why my family left Italy, and how I can reconcile the
dual ways I've been raised.
Uffizi Gallery
Palazzo Vecchio/Uffizi
Palazzo Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio
The Duomo
Amphitheater
Colosseum
Bridge of Sighs
Burano
Jewish district
Egeria's Letters:
- Epistolary format makes it easy to chronicle a long journey, in careful detail.
- The letters emphasize a personal relationship with one's ancestors, and the act of "imitation" as a means of reconnecting with one's past.
- Distinct relationship with language and food present in Egeria.
- Integrates both a solo journey, and a collective journey, complete with guides, and fellow travelers.
My Family's Journey and communitas
WORKS CITED
Conceptions of communitas on our journey:
- A journey as a family: spiritual, ancestral.
- A journey as a tour group: different walks of life, different reasons for traveling, ultimately the same desire for a sense of belonging and understanding.
What is different for me after this journey?
- New understanding of my country of ancestry, the language, and the culture.
- Distinctions between Italian-American culture, and exclusively Italian/American cultures.
In what ways was this trip medieval?
- The trip was definitely more modern than medieval; though we traveled extensively on foot once we'd arrived, our journey to Italy was by plane (not medieval at all).
- Community along the way could be considered medieval: crafted our own semi-cohesive community as we traveled.
Egeria, et al. The Pilgrimage of Egeria. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919.
www.ccel.org/m/mcclure/etheria/etheria.htm
Geary, Patrick. “Sacred Commodities: the Circulation of Medieval Relics.” The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 169-190.
Laurino, Maria. The Italian Americans: A History. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2015.
Mangione, Jerre, and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American
Experience. Harper Perennial, New York. 1993.